This July 16, 1981 file photo shows baseball union leader Marvin Miller speaking to reporters after rejecting a proposal to end a baseball strike in New York.

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Garrett Smith
Miami University Athletic Communications

Marvin Miller, the former head of the Major League Baseball Players' Association, died Tuesday at the age of 95. The former student at Miami University during the mid-1930s, had been ill for some time.

Miller spent his freshman and sophomore years from 1935-37 as an undergraduate student studying economics at Miami before returning to his boyhood home of Brooklyn, N.Y. to finish his studies at New York University.

While in Oxford, Miller lived in Ogden Hall and spent his free time playing and excelling in hand ball and ping pong. According to a Miami Student article from 1937, Miller won the ...